If long-term resistance to a spruce beetle epidemic is futile, can silvicultural treatments increase resilience in spruce-fir forests in the Central Rocky Mountains?

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1157-1178

  Windmuller Campione, Marcella A ^a   Long, James N ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative silviculture; Group selection; Resilience; Resistance; Shelterwood with reserves; Single tree selection; Spruce beetle

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SILVICULTURE; GROUP SELECTION; RESILIENCE; SHELTERWOOD WITH RESERVES; SINGLE TREE SELECTION; SPRUCE BEETLES;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EPIDEMIC; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROUP SELECTION; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST RESISTANCE; SILVICULTURE;

HARVESTING; INSECTS; RESISTANCE; SHELTERWOOD; SILVICULTURE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 84930671628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6041157     Document Type: Article

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